03/12/2025

Wednesday First week of Advent

One of the reasons that I took my personal decision not to have a funeral ceremony at the end of my life was my experience of attending many at which even the words of "The Lord's Prayer" were unknown to most of the congregation.

It was not always so for there was a time at the beginning of my life when the words of today's psalm " The Lord is my Shepherd" were as familiar as the national anthem to the people of the UK.

The Christianity of the first half of the twentieth century in England was, however, a faith that had been fractured for centuries and was dominated by our personal/familial allegiance to the "Faith of our Fathers" which we all knew to be the "One true Faith" and we had been for centuries ready to fight to prove it.

T.S. Elliot was certainly not applying his " Not with a bang but whimper" to the Christianity he was to personally embrace two years after responding to the emptiness of life without the support of God in his "The Hollow Men", but one hundred years later it is as true for the demise of God in our lives as the words with which Jesus predicted his creation of the Church "Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church".

Today I know that I am not present within a physical community dedicated to living according to the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. I am the only  human being present at this keyboard and thus "alone" but by striving to be true to her created image and likeness, my soul in reaching out to Our Father joins the New Holy Family, the Church of Love the truly "natural" home for my being that is Godlike Spirit.

In the Gospel today Jesus provides his chosen people with yet another sign. Nothing is impossible to God. When we are with God there is always "something greater here" for instructing his disciples and feeding their followers on the mountain is total, eternity, power, beauty, truth, and love incarnate in the son of Mary.

God's self-abasement in the stable may whimper, in the garden his humanity pleads and remains steadfast but on the cross he suffers, bleeds and dies to bring  to conclusion the loving revelation of His will to give us the capacity to become part of His Love.